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, 1887-11-03
SUMMONS,
Territory Of Washington.
County of SDokaue.

Territory OF Warrington
County OF Spokane ="
In the District Court Of the Territory OF wash
inRton, and for tho Fourth Judicial District
thereof, holding terms at spokane Falls,
spokane County, In said Territory,
Mathea Widncs PalntiFys. Louis Anderso,
ana Ole Romunstad, defendants.
The United states or America.
Louis Anderson and ole Romunstad, and
pcrsohs unknown having or claiming any
interest ln. or estate In the property herein de.
70 appear In an action brought agai nst YOU BY
Matnea Widnes. plaintiff ia the District Court
81 doqsi dMnqshington Territory, and for tho Fourth
kane Falls. Spokane County, In said Territory.
70 answer the complaint Of plaintiff, aied II,
spokane County, within twenty days after the
service o. this summons, exclusive Of the day OF
seryice, srn " served within said County; II not
served within said County but within said dis
ulct ip thirty days. IL served within any other
Judicial district In the Territory in forty days;
the date OF the q rat publication Of this sum.
mons, or the said plaintiff will take judgments
against you by default, according to the prayer
OF the complaint.
The cause and general nature OF the action
Is ior the partition OF lot number nine (sj In
DloCk number twcnty.seven (27) In Straton's
ADDITION to Spokane Falls. Spokane County,
washington Territory. or II a partition csuno{
be mad without injury to the rights OF the
parties, fora sale thereof and division OF the
proceeds and for costs.
Witness the Hon George Turner.
Associate Justice OF the Supreme
s~-~. Court of Washington Territory
and Judge OF said Court, and tke
SEAL seal thereof am xed this 18th day
-. b. a. CixMxSr. NJ GIe,..
Binkley q Taylor, Plaintiffs Attorney
irst publication Oct G. 1887
, 1887-11-03

An examination OF the tax roll
she VS. Il very encouraging state of
affairs. The valuation, both of real
estate aud personal property, has
greatly Increased, and the long list
of property owners whose taxes ag-
gregate to over 500 shows that cap
ital is coming into the city rapidly,
and that what is already invested is
making rich men of its owners.
There are u number OF citizens whose
taxes fall just below the 500 mark.
but are well up in the pineties. Cap
tai Is one of the most essential ele-
ments for the progress of the city,
and the fact that it Is increasing so
rapidly is Il cause for congra tulation,
The following fignres tell ihe story:
Cash value of taxable real estate 81 S22 AS
Cash value of improvements. . 647, 1Ol
personal property. .... 1,5S9,3 ,391
Total val uatlon Of all kinds Of property i05S, ,9lO
Ietritorlh inx'''....,', ,,..,......." $lO lS4 oy
County ............................. 81 ass As
school ........................ .... To- 233 Si
Bridge " .,....",................... 6O75 So
Road ......"...,...,.. ........... IL 1859 %
Total amount Of taxes not including
special Inn. ...:...,''. Sc. .9l2 So
Number of acres taxed not including
lots :.,."........... -, 426, 1856
Number of acres of improved land. .... 7O,396
lot nf
, 1887-11-03

Moved bv Clough that the bills he
allowed aud warrants drawn fol
their payment. Carried.
Moved by Dennis that an old bill
OF Bishops, which was lost, for
lumber should be paid. Carried.
The following statements from the
civil ngiueer were read:
, 1887-11-03

To the Honornblc Mayor and City Council OF
the city of spokane Falls
Gentlemen: would respectfully submit the
following report of work done by Roe " Hen
derSOn on Third street mp To date:
The total cost of grading Third street from
the east line of Howard street to the center of
Bernard street, according to contract, amounts
to 81 $40 OO.
Ninety per cent Of contract is Finished
to date which amounts to ..-..... .. $3,iS9 so
Less ~ per cent deducted until work Is
completed, which amounts to ..... G97 So
Amount due Roe & Henderson to datc.$2,7J1 -
CHARLES TRUMBuLL,
I-L.D-lL
, 1887-11-03

All of which is respectfully sub
milted.
A. S. CAMPBELL, M. d.,
Health officer.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19
Mrs. Beebe, the Ball, and the Boys.

Mrs. Beebe, an elderly New London
lady, has been a good deal annoyed by
boys who play foot ball in the street be-
fore her house. She had tried entreaties
and threats to no purpose, until the
other day, when she had her innings.
In the course of the game the boys
knocked the ball out of the bounds into
the yard attached to Mrs. Beebe's resi-
dence, and before the spryest of the lot
could scale the fence and recover the
rubber sphere, Mrs. Beebe had captured
it, and when demand was made for its
return she was deaf to all forms of en-
treaty. The boys made two or three in
effectual attempts to soften Mrs. Beebe's
great wrath for their previous bad con-
duct, but she was adamant and the boys
were in quandary. After q while they
held mass meeting for deliberation on
the best course to pursue, and finally
decided to form a committee which was
divided into subcommittee of two,
whose duties should be in turn to make
lf-hourly calls on Mrs. Beebe, and de
mand the return of their football. They
kept this up all day with little chance
of success, apparently until late III the
day, when it became mere question OF
endurance which of the adverse parties
should prevail. For brute strength the
boys had the call, and at o'clock Mrs.
Beebe surrendered and threw up the
ball, to paraphrase II term in use III
pugilistic cirCles.-Neo0 London Day.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19
A GREAT GAME OF POKER.
And the Way in Which the Walters
Regarded it.

The walters at the Delavan House re-
gard this as very tame Legislature says
an Albany correspondent. &" Use bin
waitin' on desc yah statesmen nigh on to
twent' '-seben yeahs, an [ nebbah seed de
like" said one of the oldest of the Della
vans men yesterday. "Dey doan' SEN
no mo- throughbreds like dey useter.
Time was, sab, wen dis yeah hotel was
jis' full of great gemmans wild wads of
money so big de greenbacks jest stuck
outen dere pockets, sah.
"They spent it pretty freely, too,
didn't they, Sam?"
"Dey amt ben nothin' like it sence,
sab. See dat room ober dah, sab? Well,
sab, days ben some high old times in dah
sab. L s'pose you plays de little game
dey calls pokah, sab? No? Well, [ doan'
neder, but dey's good menny folks wot
does dat doan' let on, sab. Dere was a
great game O pokah in dat room, sab,
onct, sab.
"Who played?'
''Dey was Mistah Morrisey, an NIistah
Tweed, an Mistah Petah B. Sweeney
sab, an Mistah Genet and seberal oders
which mos fogits. De was eight Of EN-
altogedar, sah."
Eight! All in one game2
eyes, sab, ,dey had ter shuttle up de
discahd fo' de draw, sab; an dat's wot
made it great game. On de deal most
ly all had pretty good hams but Mistah
Genet and Mistah Sweeney was mos
tickled to def. TT cos yo' $100 fo' cahds
genTmen, seys Mistah Sweeney. Mistah
Genet wah dealin'. TT cos yo' $3.50 mo-
fo' cahds, gen1'men,' sez he. Mistah
Sweeney give a look at de dealah, an he
says: Guess we bettah make it an even
$500 fo' cahds. raises you $3.50, Mis-
tab Genet. Dey all stayed"
"What!"
ooh, yes sab; dey all stayed. Dem
was de day o thoroughbreds, sab; now
min L tole yo'. Dey allus stay till dey
gifts busted, sab. "
''Go on"
.'An' the drawin' begin. Mistah
Sweeney he frowed away two cahds an
held free, an when he see Mistah Genet
frow away one cahd an hold four, he
smiled, sab, an remarked to Mistah
Tweed dat dis war not de night fo' film
two pair or flushes. De bettin' started
in at 800, an soon dey wah nobody let
to bodder about de pot 'cept Mistah
Sweeney and Mistah Genet. Dey riz
one anoder, sab, tell my eyes blurred
wild watchin' 'em and dey was $50, 200 in
de pot"
"Oh, mol"
"Shore's [ STAN hyah dis minin, sab,
$50, 1000 Den Mistah Sweeney he called.
"Fo' kings shouted Mistah Genet,
reachin' across de table fo' de pot.
"'HoP on bout dat? Jess leave dat
pot be- sez Mistah Sweeney. 4 has
ben bettin' ON fO' aces! !!
"Mistah Genet looked at dem aces like
as if he didn't b'lieve his eyes. Den he
say in sollum whisper:
"' Petah =
"' Wot is it, Harry ?
"Did yo' draw in dat ace o di'mun's3
"'Yes, my boy.
"' Petah =
"' Wot is it, HaITy2'
"'I frowed dat ace O di'mun's away
wild de discahd ,"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19
CARL DUNDER'S WISE SAYINGS.
Sometimes Ash He Walks Aroundt
He Sees Something's.

SometimesI go oudt and WALK aroundt
und I see some dudes. He wash some
pOdy who vhas all shtore clothes, und
shust too shweet for nottings. Dot vhas
all right to be some dudes. He couldn't
help her. Nature didn't half der mate
reals on handt to make goat OF mon
key, so she scrape oop der leafngs und
creates dude.
Sometimes ash walk aroundt meet
some young man NIT a cigar in his
mouth. It makes him feel proud, und
his headt vhas all shwelled oop. Itvhas
a five-cent cigar. He can shmoke him
und not pc dizzy. Maybe it vhas all
right, but | wonder if he realizes What
vicious und disgusting habit he vhas en-
couraging. 1t grows stronger und
stronger eafery day. 1t vhas badt for
his health, drain on his purse und a
nuisance to his friends, und it vhas pet
ter dot he vhas porn deaf and dumb.
Sometimes ash WALK aroundt / see
dot loafer NIT his pack to der wall und
his redt nose pointing to der shtreet.
He vhas a man who might earn a lifng
by honest work, but he won't. He
might be respectable and respected, but
he won't. He might have home, family,
friends und cash, but it vhas peter to
be a loafer. Maybe, however, he vhas-
MT so much to blame. If nature can
make dwarfs und shiants und cripples,
like enough she pick up all der oldt
pieces lying aroundt und use 'em to
make loafer. He Wasn't expected to
be of any value while alife, und if he
vhas deadt it vhas peter to bury him
dan to use him for land plaster
Sometimes ash [ WALK aroundt some
great big feller shtrikes me for ten cents
to puy his dinner. He vhas lazy. He
vhas vicious. All his life he doan' care
to work nor safe. He takes care of to-
day und lets tomorrow take care of her
self. Because haf worked und plan
ned und safed dis big fellow feels dot it
vhas my duty to divide. He pellets der
world owes him lifng, but he dOan'
like to work for it like the rest of us.
Und When he shtands pefore me NIT his
paw heldt oudt [ put oudtmy finger und
say: "Charity makes you tramp. States
Prison would make you worker. Ii
dossil' skip oudt it vlIas balt for YOU :"
Und sometimes ash vhalk aroundt I
see a feller NIT a game. 1t vhas his
game. He wins ninety times out of
hundred. If it Wasn't sure thing he
doan' keep him. He vhas already for
suckers When somepody comes alongund
says NIT himself: "Ah! there, my game
[ see how it vhas. go in und skin dis
man all oafer. It vhas my plan to beat
him-to take his dollars" Und When
dot same man bucks on dot game und
vhas beaten he whistles for a boleece-
man und CRIES oudt: ''Arrest dot man
for shwindler? He sheats me oudt of
five dollar I"
Und den I vhalks home und sits down
NIT my pipe to reflect how it all yhas.---
Detroit Free Press.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19
The Jews in Russia.

A commission has been for several
years past occupied in Russia with in
quiries as to the number of jews,
and especially as to their position ns
landholders, with view to contemplate
ing legislation on the subject. Some
results of the investigations have lately
been published According to the cen-
sus statistics of 1881 relating to sixteen
governments of the south and west of
the empire there were 2, $3.50, ,639 Jews of
both sexes in total population of 25,-
500, ,000-i. c., at the rate of III per cent.
The Hebrew element is most largely
represented in Iithuania and White
Russia, and least in Little Russia. in
Minsl1 it is as one in five, while III
Kharkov the proportion is one to $50.
In general the Jews prefer to settle i'll
villages, or in towns that are not seats
of government. 4 striking example OF
their prepondcrance is shown in the
hamlets of the Troli district (Wllna),
where they form % per cent. of the pop
ulation. Regarding their position rs
owners or occupiers of land in the aboYo-
mentioned provinces, which contain 81
900, 900 acres in ell, it appears that they
have purchased 1900 900 acres from
the MOBILES since 1861, and they hold
$3.50, 900 acres MS tenant farmers. These
lands they do not cultivate themselves,
but let or sub-let them, us the case may
be, in small lots, to the peasants OF
neighboring villages. Their profits as
middlcmcn have hitherto been very
largo. There arc instances in Bessarahia,
Volhynia and Khe son OF extensive
districts hired by them ut from one
tlird to two roubles an acre, and rc-let
in small lots at four to five roublrs per
aero.
In Bessarnbia they have obtained long
leases of agricultural land belonging to
some foreign converts which they hayo
sub-lct in some cases for twenty roubics
per faltcha. q local measure equal 20
nearly three acres. In Podolla almost
all the large estates situated III the ba-
sins of the affiuence of Dncistcr are held
bv Jews Mt long terms. The system OF
agriculture pursued under these now
is found to be no better than
that of other classes of land spectators.
The soil is exhausted after five or ten
wears cropping, and it is not to he Won
dercd at that within the last decade there
has been u fall Of thirty percent. in the
value of landed property.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19
Saucy Cuban Beggars.

The beggars of Havana, says Ella
Wheeler Wilcox, are not the least
interesting of the many curious
types of people to be met with in that
city. There seems to be a larger varie-
ty of cripples than is to be found any
where else, and they are all trying to
sell lottery tickets. They invade the
hotels sometimes in the midst of a table
d'hote. 1t is not pleasant, you can inn
agine, to have a beggar served up to
you at the same time as the soup. They
will linger around until walters drive
them out with mild profanity and a
flourish of white napkins.
The Cuban children seem to be Grad
led in the gutter, for go where you will
you will find them rolling half nude in
the cutters, some of them smoking ci-
garettes, and not infrequently huge CT
gars, which they can hardly manage. [
never saw such population of puffers.
All day long the incense of cigarettes as
cends toward heaven. Every one smokes
mothers, sons, daughters, babies, pa
triarchs morning, noon and night,
at meals and between meals, puff puff
puff
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19

"The buildings clustered together Ike a riage''
the long green levels of grass fields ly-
ing low and even with the river that
filed and sparkled in the reeds along
the edge, and flowed by us broad and
grand on its way to the sea. And when
the sun shone, and the sky was blue,
-anu the south wind was softly blowing,
one seemed as near heaven, living there,
as it is given one to be on earth.
There were quite a number of dwell
ing houses here, where the corners of
several of the great river farms con-
verged, so that although their lands
stretched out In different directions, the
buildings clustered together like a vii
lage; and we always came and went
freely in each others houses, and knew
each others concerns, and were more
like one large family than strangers; and
I loved my neighbors every one, and
didn't want to go away from them. And
when it came to the question of marry
ing and going away, was simply deter
mined that wouldn't go away, but that
Mark should come down to this little
garden of Eden, where I knew every tint
of the ripe grass on the meadow, every
sparkle of the water, every fleece of cloud
upon the blue of heaven.
''And why not, Mark 2" I urged.
"Here is this immense farm, a really
great property, and would you leave it
to take care of itself, and we go to live
two miles away on your fathers place,
that bleak, lonesome rock up in the air,
shut in by pine forest, like a great
Fortress prison, a real dungeon ?"
''It isn't prison to me-" said Mark.
SIT is the brightest spot in the world
it would be if you were in it, Nam" Ny
real name is Pamela; but that is the way
people always used me.
"And no neighbors there I" I ex-
claimed-''nobody to run in of an even
ing, nobody to talk to over the garden
wall, nobody to borrow OF, nobody to
show your new things to, nobody if
you're sick. One might as well be bur
led alive. I always thought So"
81 should want nobody but you, Nan,
if we were married and that was our
home. 1t would be simply paradise.
sit wouldn't be paradise to me with
out any water to see. 1 never liked the
verse In the Bible about there being no
more sea. Pretty heaven that, without
any sea to look at / couldn't live with
out my river. I've always had it rnnning
by, running up or running down, COM
ing from somewhere, going to some
where, life and motion. l always look
out the first thing in the morning to see
if it's still there, and I listen for it at
night. And it makes two skies by night
ono above and one below-with stars
down in the underworld; and then by
day the color, the changing light and
color, and the pushing of the tide, tax
ing you right into the mysteries. Oh,
it's stagnation without the river I'd as
lief be dead"
''And / think just as much of the pine
woods" he said, with the everlasting
murmur of the boughs. And when a
wind begins to blow, long before we feel
it down below, the tree-tops know it, and
are whispering about it one to another,
like old witches brewing storm"
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19

Sawyer's words were ringing in my ears.
In the dark, all at once L thought L
could see the torrent of broken ice, the
great blocks and sheets of pointed,
jagged ice, lifting themselves into one
huge wall, and sweeping round the bend
and up the land, pushed by the mighty
swelling of the tide behind-mountlng,
grinding, sweeping across all this low
interval, over which it would crash and
pour and flow, to find the river at point
below and reach the sea. The rush of
the great black cold waters was already
upon me, the sound of them in my ears,
the blowing of the wide dark water
breath. [ felt myself helpless straw
before them. I did not wait an instant.
] never thought of the others. / was
not conscious of any thought at all; but
[ screamed and turned and dashed out
of the house and down the lane, as fast,
as breathlessly, as [ could race, through
the mire and slush, and up the narrow
road into the wood, feeling still that
chill water breath blowing ON me, hear
ing the terrible sound of the rasping,
piling, tumbling, roaring ice, and [
never stopped till I fell painting and
breathless and fainting at somebody's
feet, with the warm breath of great
big dog in my face, and was being
lifted in somebody's arms, and saw,
when I opened my eyes, by the light of
the young yellow moon through the
wood, that it was Mark, and he was
kissing me with a kiss as long as the
space that had separated us. ''Oh,
Mark Mark - [ cried, ''save me save
me! The freshet is coming; it is close
upon us; we are all drowning Take
me up to your house, to your dear old
high house, and don't let me ever leave
it. Oh, Mark, I loved you all the time!
Take me home. Don't let me go again.
Forgive me; love me. don't see how
you can love me. [ don't see how you
can love anybody so wilful and vixenish
and selfish and hateful; but oh! you
must-you must -
81 am taking you home," said he, as
soon as he had the chance. "Do you
suppose [ will let you go again? [ shall
have to forgive you. What else is there
for me to do? / heard about the freshet.
I was Just on my way to you. We will
have the minister up this very evening,
if we can get him, and you shall never
so much as 60 out of my arms again"
And he did. And here am, perfectly
happy in this fortress, this prison on a
rock, this dungeon-so happy that [
have not yet been able to bring my
shocked nerves to the pass even of 60
ing down again to the grass lands, where
Mark goes down and manages everything
for me.
And the freshet2 Oh, to be sure
Why, you see, that south wind shifted
to easterly, and it froze again that night.
And when it melted, it melted so gently
that the ice went out of the river with
out anybody's knowing it. And there
never was any freshet.-Haaper's BaSar.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19
THE LIGHT OF LOYE.

Fair is the flush of the summer dawn,
When the gate of pearl uncloses,
As it glimmerS along the dewy lawn
And shimmers amid the roses;
As it wakes the little drops of dew
To quiverings of delight,
And threads the aisle of the forest through
On the trail of the flying night.
Soft is the gleam of the summer stars
When the feverish day is over,
When the fays are afioat in silvery cars,
And the dusky moth is a rover;
When over the couch of the dreaming flow
ers
The mist of the fountain creep,
And the languid ears of the drowsy hours
Are wooed by songs of the deep.
But the dazzling hues of the morning fall
And dull are its golden lances,
And all of the light of the stars grow pale
In my darling's tender glances;
For the stars may burn with a thousand
dyes,
And myriad sunbeams fall,
But the light of love in a woman's eyes
Is the purest light of all.
-Ne1o Orleans Times.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-05-19

Little Girl-How many hairs have
you got ON your head?
Visitor-I don't know, little girl. I
never counted them.
Little Girl-Mr. Jones knows how
many you have got. l heard him say
that YOU owed more debts than you had
hairs on your head. Take off your hat
and lemme see.-Sifti1lgS.
THE DAY.
Troy Magistrate-Youa are positive that
this occurrence took place on the day
and date named2
Witness-Oh, yes, positive.
Magistrate-Why are you so positive
Witness-Because that was the day
Troy didn't have a cock-fght.
A DIVISION OF LABOR.
He-Where are you going, my pretty
maid?
She-I'm going a-milking, sir, she
said.
He-Can 1 help you, my pretty maid2
She-You can work the pump-handle,
sir, she said.-Puck.
CRUSHED.
Editor (having glanced at the contrib
utor's joke-Where's the other2
Contributor-Other There isn't any
other.
Editor-Um! 1 thought Noah took
two of every kind into the ark.
SOMEWHAT DEVOTIONAL.
"My young friend" he SAID solemnly,
edo you ever attend place of Worship"
eyes, sir, regularly every Sunday
night, replied the youth. "I'm on my
way to see her now"
ODDS AND ENDS.
A SMALL boy and a gun are harmless
when apart, but they make o terrible
combination.
"DEFINE a monstrosity," said the
teacher, and the Children all replied in
ringing chorus: can insurance agent
with the mumps."
IHE PRINCE OF WALES wears a pair
of pantaloons only five times. Poor fell
low, if he only knew how a man feels
when he has patch on tho knee. There
are some luXuries which oven prince
can't afford.
''Is the sermon done p an old woman
@ M,to 'toheN 'tS size WIS leaving tne cnurcn.
"No, was the prompt reply, "the SER
mon is preached, but it will have to be
done (and practiceD by us hearers dur
ing the week"
A BUsYBoDY is generally a person who
has no business in this world beyond
making it his business to neglect his
own business in order to attend to the
business of others. Such chap has no
business to be tolerated anyway.
A BURLINGTON reporter asked an act
ress if she had ever suffered from stage
fright. She replied that she never had,
except once when crossing the Rocky
Mountains. The stage came within an
ace of being tipped over precipIce.